Sam Yagan

Chief Executive Officer, Match.com

Sam Yagan is the CEO of match.com and co-founder of Excellerate Labs in Chicago. Sam was previously CEO and co-founder of okcupid.com, which was purchased by match.com. He has spent several years as an entrepreneur, first as Co-founder and CEO of TheSpark.com, Inc., maker of SparkNotes, the world’s leading brand of educational study aids. More recently, he has served as President of MetaMachine, Inc., developer and distributor of the world’s leading P2P file-sharing application, eDonkey. Sam has also served as Vice-President and General Manager at Delias, Corp., and Vice-President and Publisher at Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Sam has a BA in Applied Mathematics & Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.